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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 36 4 b Solution by
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For each proposal , independently draw and accept it whenThe ratio is at most one, as required. For any measurable set ,so the acceptance probability is and the conditional distribution of an accepted proposal has density . Repeating independent trials until acceptance therefore gives an exact draw from , and repeating the whole procedure gives iid target draws. This proves rejection sampling.
The number of proposals for one successful draw is geometric with mean . Thus is also the expected proposal cost of this exact simulation method.
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